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Eze, Ifowodo, Oburumu make final shortlist for $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature

The 2026 edition is dedicated to poetry, continuing the prize's four-year rotation among prose fiction, poetry, drama and children's literature. According to the Advisory Board, ch...

NLNG Announces 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature Longlist: Adedayo Agarau, Tanure Ojaide, Ogaga Ifowodo, Theresa Lola &a...

  Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has announced the 11-book longlist for the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature, bringing together some of the country’s most accomplished and emerging po...

Eze, Ifowodo, and Oburumu Make Final Three for the $100,000 Nigeria Prize for Literature 2026

The Nigeria Prize for Literature has narrowed its 2026 poetry field down to a shortlist of three: James Ngwu Eze’s Unbind Me Now, Ogaga Ifowodo’s Why Does God Need a Gun?, and Tare...

How 18-year-old Nigerian became Poet Laureate in the US

Daniel's story is about the quiet power of curiosity, about parents who encouraged learning, about migration without forgetting home. It is about discovering that identity need not...

Two Nigerian Poets, Tolu Oloruntoba and Othuke Umukoro, Shortlisted for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry

The finalists for the 2026 Walcott Prize are out! Two Nigerian poets have made the finalist list for the 2026 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, awarded annually by Arrowsmith Press i...

Ogogo danced away barefooted

Ogogo, every mile you travel will bring back memories of your creativity, your powerful Ìjálá chants, your Bàtá dancing and the unique artistry that made you who you were.

Old And Odd Gages Unglue Fola from Friends and Home   

Without proper papers, you would always be treated as a foreigner; his parents used to caution young Fola. Did the memo hit home in a heavy drop like a deluge? Fola, fact was cloud...

Miracle Uzoigwe and Goodness Aremu Adejare Win Inaugural Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards, Take Home ₦1,000,000...

Nigeria’s newest poetry competition has its first set of laureates. The Pius Oleghe Poetry and Literary Awards (POPALS) has announced the winners of its maiden edition, following a...

Oseni, Olayinka And The Gbewudani Metaphor

By Niran Adedokun Amongst many others, two things sicken me about Nigerian politicians. The first is their capacity to approbate and reprobate. You know that inclination to blow ho...

After Ichie Omee-Okachie Spoke to Ejindu

By Okey Ikechukwu Ejindu was a young man whose voice had not yet become strong enough to be heard during the meetings and conversations of elders. He had always disliked

What the Fallen Seed Knows | Bill Nwonwu | Poetry

  The ground does not apologize for its hardness. The seed does not ask permission to split open. I have been buried before — in silence, in refusal, in the mouths of those who mis...

Mourning in literary circles as Popular Nigerian poet, Ogundepo dies 84

Ogundepo, a native of Saki in Oyo State, died on Monday, according to information from his family.

Ikpea: Celebrating Leadership and Good Governance

Allison Abunam writes on how Senator Joseph Ikpea is using good leadership and governance strategies to champion the progress of the people In a political landscape too frequently...

God Forbid | Somtoo Celestine Ezioha | Fiction

  The room smelled of Raid. Okwy had sprayed too much in his bedroom, and the smell had taken over the room, so he picked up his phone and his water bottle and came to the parlour....

Ikpea: Celebrating Leadership and Good Governance

Allison Abunam writes on how Senator Stephen Ikpea is using good leadership and governance strategies to champion the progress of the people. In a political landscape too frequentl...

Oborevwori, Media Veterans, Others Laud Nduka Obaigbena’s Enduring Legacy at 67

•Celebrate THISWEEK founding at 40 Omon-Julius Onabu in Asaba and Sunday Ehigiator in Lagos Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, leading figures in Nigeria’s media industry an...

The African Dream | Uchanma Kama | Poetry

  My mother said education is the key. Did she lie? Or was she lied to by those who held the lock and sipped tea? Because all I see doesn’t match what she dreamed. I strive night a...

Nigerian-American Poet Chisaraokwu Asomugha Named a 2026 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow

PEN America received the highest number of applicants in 29 years for its 2026 Emerging Voices Fellowship, and among the eleven writers selected from that extraordinary pool is Chi...

When the wells run dry, By Wole Olaoye

I like to think that I’m a citizen of the world. Truthfully, I have not been raised to have racial or ethnic boundaries, even as I’ve been socialised to appreciate the beauty of my...

Ehizode: Canagerian for life, by Emeka Obasi

Welcome to Canada, the land where Nigeria’s first Commonwealth gold medal was achieved by Arinze Ifeajuna at Vancouver 1954. Daniel Igali won Olympic gold for the North Americans a...

Promoting Igbo Culture Odimegwu Onwumere

For more than 20 years, Globacom has been a common name in every market, street and village across Igbo land. If you look closely, Glo has also been doing something

Nigerian becomes US National Youth Poet Laureate

A Nigerian has been named the 2026-2027 US National Youth Poet Laureate, earning him praise from the U.S. Mission in

Ogazi blazes to historic Commonwealth Games 400m Gold for Nigeria

The 20-year-old Nigerian, who had entered the final as the fastest qualifier after clocking 44.52 seconds in the semi-finals, lived up to his billing by pulling away from the field...

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